Satellite images of damaged area show no sign of shelling that Moscow says prevents repair
Russia has been accused of deliberately sabotaging the last remaining power line into the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, after satellite imagery of the damaged area showed no sign of Ukrainian shelling that Moscow says is preventing a repair.
Outside power, normally used for cooling, has now been down for a record eight days, forcing the Russian operators of the plant in occupied Ukraine to rely on back-up diesel generators to avoid a meltdown of its six reactor cores.
The photography was commissioned by Greenpeace and it was examined by experts at McKenzie Intelligence, in an effort to assess the damage at the Zaporizhzhia plant, which lies on the frontline of the war.
McKenzie Intelligence concluded in a short report that there is “no evidence of any crater, either fresh or historic” around the damaged pylon and that it is still standing “and therefore should be a relatively simple task to repair”.
